Thursday 5 February 2015

The First day of a Corper in Camp.. Enjoy!!!

#Day1
First day was stressful and eventful starting from the early waking at 5am at my house, preparing to travel on a 2hrs journey from Ibadan to Iseyin. Traveling with my friend Ope Jaiyeoba didn't make it boring. Riding on a fairly rough road, the journey seemed forever but cool because we met other corp members in the bus forming like we have known each other somewhere before.
Anyways let’s go to the camp venue, the bus got to a particular road, untarred and dusty, we saw soldiers, policemen, civil defense men. Yeah, I knew we had gotten to the camp venue; all of a sudden they stopped the bus driver to get us down. On getting down, the soldiers asked all of us to carry our bags on our heads, I was not really shocked, was expecting it though but what surprised me was that we had not even gotten to the main entrance at that point, the gate was still a bit far. So we had to carry our bags on our head whether heavy or light it was. The annoying thing was that we were asked to “double up” which mean we should run. How can you run for a long distance with heavy bags on your head? Stressful mehn! I almost cried but I had to form hard guy because ladies had to do the same too. Anyways my advice for next prospective corp members is that “Do not bring heavy bags to camp”. Along the road, there were old women trying to help us carry our bags, just a way to advertise themselves so you can patronize them whenever you want to wash or do anything during the camp period.